Shell Commands

[TR4L]

Is there a place that lists the commands for shell? I tried to read up on it in the documentation but it's confusing to me.

 

[Chris Moore]

Is there a place that lists the commands for shell? I tried to read up on it in the documentation but it's confusing to me.

It is FreeBSD with some functionality restricted. If there is something you want to do, ask and someone will tell you if it needs to be done in the GUI, can be done from the command line, or if it needs to be done in a jail because it can't be done in the command line of FreeNAS due to restrictions of the appliance, because FreeNAS is an appliance operating system that is based on FreeBSD but it has significant restrictions on what you are able to do unless you can dig into it far enough... If you are able to do that, you should probably be working on the development team, but if you do that, you are basically making your own version of the system.

 

[Chris Moore]

PS. If you are going to do much at the command line, you should enable SSH so you can do a remote terminal. The shell within the GUI is not good enough to do any serious work. I use it a fair bit myself because you can do some good work there, it is just that you can't expect to change system settings from the command line when they are intended to be set from the GUI.

 

[TR4L]

Well the reason I ask is because I don't want to always have to login to the GUI to check on the system. I have a monitor and keyboard attached to my NAS at all times. I can just flick it on and get to work. I'll look some up. I've had a lot of problems with My NAS since building it back in 2016 and want to make sure the system is kosher.

 

[Redcoat]

Is there a place that lists the commands for shell? I tried to read up on it in the documentation but it's confusing to me.

Did you try typing "help" (no quotes) ?

 

[Chris Moore]

Github repository for FreeNAS scripts, including disk burnin
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...for-freenas-scripts-including-disk-burnin.28/

Useful Commands
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/useful-commands.30314/#post-195192

Hard Drive Troubleshooting Guide (All Versions of FreeNAS)
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...bleshooting-guide-all-versions-of-freenas.17/

CAM status: ATA Status Errors - thread
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/cam-status-ata-status-error.16833/

 

[Chris Moore]

PS. It would be better to SSH in from a terminal program. The local console is really very limited.

Uncle Fester's Basic FreeNAS Configuration Guide
https://www.familybrown.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fester:intro

 

[TR4L]

Github repository for FreeNAS scripts, including disk burnin
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...for-freenas-scripts-including-disk-burnin.28/

Useful Commands
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/useful-commands.30314/#post-195192

Hard Drive Troubleshooting Guide (All Versions of FreeNAS)
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...bleshooting-guide-all-versions-of-freenas.17/

CAM status: ATA Status Errors - thread
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/cam-status-ata-status-error.16833/

That's Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for!

 

[drgnmsr]

I get

zsh: command not found: help

 

[sretalla]

I get

zsh: command not found: help

What exactly are you doing (on what version of TrueNAS) that generates that output?

 

[drgnmsr]

What exactly are you doing (on what version of TrueNAS) that generates that output?

TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.3.3
Like the suggestions above by Redcoat, I am trying to type "help" into Shell.

 

[sretalla]

OK, but you're following a post that's about TrueNAS CORE... (and 4 years old, before SCALE existed)

In any case, it seems you're running into this:

Shell command issues with non-root-admin

Hi, I have created a new non-root-admin on Bluefin after the latest update. However while using the shell as this user for example I can't run the "zpool" command, as this will give me the error "zpool: command not found" When going back to the root-account it works fine. Any hints how to fix...

www.truenas.com

 

[somethingweird]

man pages? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

There is no "help" command in Unix.

 

[somethingweird]

What are you looking to do via cli? Just wondering.